Why This Role Stands Out
This remote contract role offers a fantastic opportunity to significantly impact a fast-scaling digital business by rebuilding its analytics infrastructure and shaping best practices from the ground up. You'll thrive here if you are a skilled Analytics Engineer eager to leverage your expertise in LookML and dbt to deliver impactful, self-serve analytics within a collaborative, user-first environment, with a competitive day rate of £450.
Quick Overview
Job Description
ANALYTICS ENGINEER
6-MONTH CONTRACT
£450-£450 PER DAY OUTSIDE IR35
This role offers a great opportunity for an Analytics Engineer to join a fast-scaling digital business undergoing a complete rebuild of its analytics infrastructure. You'll play a key role in reshaping how data is modeled, accessed, and used across teams - all with a focus on clarity, consistency, and self-serve analytics. The environment values autonomy, quality, and user-first thinking, with the freedom to shape best practices from the ground up.
THE COMPANY
This is a high-growth consumer business committed to data-informed decision-making across marketing, operations, product, finance, and customer success. They're currently rebuilding their analytics platform with modern, scalable tools and need a strong contractor to accelerate this transition. Working in a fast-paced, collaborative, and remote-first environment, you'll make a lasting impact on how data empowers the organisation.
THE ROLE
You'll join the data team to lead the design and delivery of a new semantic layer in Looker. You'll work with stakeholders across departments to translate business needs into performant, trusted data models using LookML and dbt. You'll also play a critical role in shaping the self-serve analytics experience and ensuring the platform is intuitive, documented, and cost-efficient.
Your responsibilities will include:
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Ingest and migrate data sets into their AWS Snowflake platform.
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Designing and implementing dbt models that power clean, consistent metrics.
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Buidl out orchestartion pipelines using Airflow
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Creating clear documentation for dashboards, metrics, and models.
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Ensuring optimal performance and cost efficiency across Snowflake
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Supporting a stakeholder-first approach to data usability and access.
KEY SKILLS AND REQUIREMENTS
- Extensive experience operating within Snowflake environments
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Airflow for data orchestration.
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Proficiency in SQL and dbt, with a strong understanding of data modeling best practices.
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Strong communication skills with the ability to translate complex needs into elegant data solutions.
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Focus on usability, documentation, and data clarity.
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Comfortable working independently in a dynamic, fast-changing environment.
DESIRABLE SKILLS
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Experience rebuilding or refactoring a Looker instance from scratch.
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Familiarity with Snowflake performance tuning and cost optimization.
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Experience scaling analytics across a cross-functional organisation
HOW TO APPLY
Please register your interest by sending your CV via the apply link on this page.
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